t Centre Bevaorat, yo tly 1558, Thy RSDAY, Je LY CHAS. R. KURTZ EDITOR LOCAL DEPARTMENT. -The nights are very dark. —Who stole the watermelon. =o you get the DEMOCRAT ? ~Short sermons are very appropriate this time of the year. —A perfect nuisance—the dogs at Garman’s stable, —The Phohibition State Convention has been called for August 28th, —Col. J. L. Spangler is attending en. campinent of the national Guards this week. ~The Bellefonte Cornet Band will accompany the Methodist pic-nic to- day. —Jos, Folk is playing policeman this week while Wm. Garis is soldiering at Bedford. ~The game of base ball to be played by teams of Bellefonte and Milesburg did not take place. ~Huckleberries are plenty this season, but they sell from eight to ten cents per quart at this place, ~The family of C. U. Hoffer will move to Philipsburg next month and expect to make that their future home, —Ed. Chambers, Esq., is keeping bachelor’s hall, Mrs. Chambers and son are visiting friends in Chester county. ~The Methodist Sabbath School hold their annual summer picnic in Hun- ter’s grove, along the Buffalo Run road, to-day. —It is asserted that twenty-four the States of the Union cast each a smaller vote than that of New York city. —Master “Bert,” son of Col. Geo. A. Bayard, who was bitten bya dog July 5th is lying very low at his home in this place with typhoid fever. His recovery is hoped for every day. on —Pic-nic parties by hack area coimn- mon thing every Sunday from Belle. forte. There is a portion of the Serip- ture that runs somewhat like this: **Re- member the Sabbath day and keep it holy « ete. 4 —A Philipsburg saloon keeper paid a dollar for a sealed envelope containing directions that would enable him to sell more beer. When he opened it he found a small card with the wordd “Don’t sell so much froth.” —On Friday another pic-nic will be held in Hunter's Grove. The Sons of Temperance, of Milesburg, will hold their pic-nic there and invite all to join them. Hunter's Grove is quite a popu- lar resort for pic-nie excursions. Mr. John D. Rishel, of Philadelphia, formerly connected with Harris” drug store, paid a flying visit to Bellefonte on last Friday to see friends and former acquaintances. He left Saturday morn- ing for Pittsburg. ~Mr. and Mrs. Bell, the photogra- pher, departed ongTuesdayjmorning for a short vacation to Williamsport and oth- er eastern cities. Miss Mary Holmes is acting as general manager of the gal lery. Call at Bell's gallery for your fine photographs, ~Ex-County Treasurer, D.;C. Keller, wus in town several days of last week. Mr. Keller now resides on his farm sev. eral miles east of Centre Hall and de- votes his time to fanning and buying up cattle for sale in the eastern markets, He observed his forty-ecighth birthday on Friday the 19th, by subscribing for the DEMOCRAT, the careful reading of which will insure him another year of health, peace and prosperity. ~Chas, Noll, son of Mr. John Noll, of Bellefonte, is now operating in the telephone office here in place of Mr. Troxell, who was recently transferred to Williamsport. Mr. Noll was sent to Johnstown a week after the flood for a short tine and transferred from thence to this city. Miss Russell, as usual, re mains at her post. —1.. H. Democrat, ~The editors of Grit, published at Williamsport, have been arrested for publishing obscene and lewd matter in their paper and sending the same through the mails. The article appeared in the last issue, July 21, and is an attack up on George Keifer, of Williamsport. The publishers of that paper have learned little from past experience and continue to fill its columns with all the filth and rottenness that can be raked and scrap ed up over the broad land. Its very tone is degenerating and its moral standing is an eye sore in the field of journalism. It is a curse in the home circle where it contaminates the minds of the young by spreading before them of | CENTRE COUNTY AHEAD. | A PROPHET PREDICTS SOME | STRANGE THINGS. A Now! Beet In our Counly-—They Believe the World will Come to an ed in 1800, Said to be Preparing for that Event, Awong the strange things we and read of in the newspapers the one we publish below takes the lead, The arti ele appeared in the Pittsburg 79:.es of this week and has been copied far and wide by other journals. The article speaks of a religions sect t hat exists in our community and is pre- paring for the general dissolution of this old globe next year. The article as far as we have been able to nseertain is a gross exaggeration upon the fair name of Centre county, Our people do not believe in anything of the kind, un- less there may be one or two individ. uals with their own peculiar opinions —which they certainly are entitled to hold. The following is the article : BELLEFONTE, PA., July 19.-It has lately been rumored around here that there is throughout Centre county, as well as in Bellefonte, a certain mutual organization that preach and are pre. paring for the end of the world, which they confidently believe will be next year, 18640, Throughtout this county alone, from the most accurate date possible to obtain it is safe to estimate that there are at least 1,000 and possibly 2,000 adherents of this strange organization, if organiza. tion it can be termed. So far as it was possibly to penetrate into their work- ings, no real perfected o ganization with appointed head see legalized officers and could be association and who look to the Ty found, but simply who work in great secrecy, most pronounced their midst as the one in proper one to ALL the ty MEMBERS OF SECTS, of Christ denom The professors of of different and no special church is represented more than another. The Bible they wake for the foundation of their belief is wéll foun ed, majority adherents are ani nation: al chu og | rN gmong the events faith is the flood and fires, prominent Most ntup to] brougl rove their ity with wars and rumors of wars, the in. of 1 and disaster teachers Od recent multiplic Lie me and the uprising of prophets and fa The association's work consists 1 of preaching its doctrine and subsianti- ating it by practice. in making prepa. tion for his world. The only man wl the inal upon to say much about the and belief was C, D. Mil farmer, of the herents of the belief. and one A BELIEVER TAL 1 “I believe the world will end in 1800, Is of others—more than a thon perhaps throughout this connty Te the same thing. This bel | associ. ation has been current id must in no wise be connected with the prophecies of ‘Mother Shintof’ or ary of the kind. It has spranz np solely from the teachings of the Bille, and every day is made more plain aud con. vincing by the events ncenrring around us. “‘T lell you what it is, we all want ty think less of self or acenmulating money and such other material things and give more attention to the prepara. tion of ourselves for the final dissolution which is sure to come.” When asked as to when he first believed the end of the world would be in 1590, he replied : “As far back as 15 years ago I prophesied that the end of the world would be in 1590, and that as it neared that time the prophecies in the Bible would be fulfilled and made very plain to everyone.” THEY FORESAW FLOODS AND FIRES, Mr. Miller then called attention to the recent floods. “We believe in this doc- tri ne anticipated all the startling disas- ters that have lately ocenrred, though of course, wedid not know at. what time or place they would occur. But all these recent floods, large fires, earth. quakes, milroad accidents, increase of crime, prophecies and teachings of this later day have all been predestinated, and are a sure sign of the approach of the end.” KNEW THETIME BY INSPIRATION. Mr. Miller could not definitely say just why the year 1500 was set as the time for the end of the world, but in some unaccountable way felt certain that was the time. Mr. Miller is a well informed and intelligent man, and is thoroughly sincere in what he teaches, The believers’ mode of work is to preach to their friends. The only ob. ject in view, 50 far as can be learned, was to have all prepared spiritually. In some places churches have taken up and there are hod thins of at for ven tut LE o'clock the family « f 1.) a mutual § and members | { he rehes, § i Won | in the f« | Pleasa | bananas, rietiy | § On 1 FIRE AT SPRING MILLS, | Grenoble's Store and Dwelling tur ted to the Ground, Last Friday morning at nt Soring Mills was awakened by smoke in the building. Upon investigation was found to be in the wall of the ware house and was soon extinguished; at» o'clock the same morning, fire broke out at the same place but was put out 1 renoble without doing any further damage, Mr. Grenoble then locked up his store for the day or until the insurance men could meet and adjust his Joss, Atd o'clock fire again broke out in an im- | mense blaze and the entire building was burned to the ground, The building was owned by Reynolds, of Bellefonte: store company was Mrs, Grenoble, John Rossman, Adam Krumrine, with I. J. Grenoble as man- ager, The insurance on the building is 81,000, in the Centre Hall Co, other companies. Store Co. had $2,000 on stock in Centre Hall company and £6,000 in outside companies, Mrs, Gren” oble had 8673 on furniture. insurance is $12.5873, This store stood high on the hill and Ww. the Grenoble quite handy to the large Spring Mills | It was a large building two stor. | hotel. jes high and composed a dwelling, store room, warehouse and a public hall, used by the a place of worship. The Victim of his Son's Anger Old Frances Rote who has been lying on a bed of suffering ever since his half- | witted and passionate son Dave riddled his body with bullets, curred about four weeks ago, week at his mountain home burn. His shot pain and he was naturally and partly deli His f ve his wants the died last below wounds caused him much Very re rious. too should have h id and he was seem tention * one day wm the floor whence his the ken by the fall. and Thishad b © Win K ah i fl #& purga- like sith Jou found lying « had fallen from ith nded arm bro injured otherwise. wepart of th the last davs of his life must have bee 1 and death came jeff. —Milihe tory to hin What Killed the Cows, day L G20 D recs : One recently the men 7 LR yeiail DATTY ls of and after unpacking : vw the grass in which they were pa i cows, th i in a back wrty of Matthew Ri and all eat of two of ti ing A the ¥ our fle. alle Ye. de the grass, The next and the follow er wo, An examina. sex] the fact that the hardened in the he cows died Lh 4: ' solo » gras had stomach and the gestion cansed death, was it the kind of effect of posionous green banana skin ¥ Grass Or Was “Grit” Prosweated storday last George Keifer, of Wil. liamsport ap; eared before United States Comnmisdoner James H. MeDevitt, of Sunbury awd swore ont a warrant against Gear W, Rainhard , Deitrick and Fred M. Lan ade, editors and publishers of the Pennsylvania Grit, for sending ob- scene and lewd Jiterature through the Units! States mails. The warrant was placed in the hands of Simon Yeager, Unite! States Deputy Marshal, for ser. vice. When the arrests are made the hearing will take place before Commis. sioner McDevitt at Sunbury some day this week. . Important Meeting of Executive Committee of Veteran Club, We solicit the attention of the Execu- tive Committee of Veteran Club of Cen. tre county to the following call for a meeting : A meeting of the Executive Commit- tee of the Veteran Club of Centre coun- ty will be held at the office of the Secre- tary in Bellefonte, on Saturday, the 27th day of July, at 2o'clock p. m., at which business of importance will be consider- ed, A full attendance of the committee is earnestly requested. H. H. Bexxenr, Sec'y, The PBuckinils. The Bucktall Association will hold its annual reapion in Philipsburg, Centre county, on August 21, 22 and 23, This determination was arrived at on last week at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the association, The Buocktails was one of the most celebrat. ed organizations of the war, and our friend. Mr. David Glenn, of this city, Is a bright and shining member of the or ganization, Wheat Prive, Orange Judd & Co. publishers, offera prize of $500 for the best acre of wheat raised in th United States this year, A farmer down in Lancaster reports a yield of forty-one bushels and thinks he will get the prize. Can any farmer in Centre county beat that? We would like to hear of the best yield in the about 4 | ¥.] Bartges and Ienry | and 83.200 in | The total i teformed congregation for | an event that oc- | Co- : app ned ! A es | { came at | : indi. : The query is now | it the | matter from the | A GENEROUS ASVIRANT Who Will Bouble his Church If Snecessfol, We take greater delight in praising the good qualities and geosroas de nedghbors, than heralding faults and misgivings, and deem it | proper to publish the following little in- | cident which was related, ing, by one interested, It was a short conversation in our hear. which took place between a prominent Metho. dist Divine, of this co y, and Fd R. Chambers, Esq., promis Anmunit one of om ing young meet each | week. The bers when took place: Rev: "Good morning, fine weather,” Mr. C: “Why good morning, | are you well #"’ | Rev. : “Quite well, thank [ the way, Mr. Chambers, I hear you are a political aspirant and have prospects Deputy Revenue I hope the re- attorneys, other Rev, the They chanced to morning of last approached Mr. Cham- following conversation one Mr, Chambers; Rev. you. of being appointed Collector of this distriet; port is true.” Mr. ( “Thank you, Rev.: Iam an | aspirant for such a position, but all as. pirations thus fur are simply prospects; nothing definite—prospects only." “Well, Mr.Chambers, I am in- formed t1 mt you will certainly be ap- pointed. I hear this from good authori. ty. I would most heartily | your application asa worthy lev man for the ap. will re. | the position and would endors pointment, which I know you ceive. 1 am interested in your success, In that event Mr. feel like contributing somethin of our that wiped out. can I not *”' “1 never Chambers, you might @ towards debt: 1 I can the liquidation church Ww tO Ser call then ant on YOu. make any rash it loss | last week | ineement th | Rev. was surprised and hi th a smil Mr. exclaimed Mr. Reach the repeatedly “Good | ! Thank you, I certainly At which ng forward and back {rood patt ing fon bers an sucoess, Mr. Chambers gave id nothing, i fs i mn then drifted peculiar smile and sa a} Their conversati upon | the invigorating breeze, fine wealher, and The Rev. all th he excl: Mr. Ch 2 pardon me, I hope, but how much good crops other happy subjects 8 time being more or less uneasy when sired iy the wav, MODES, You | your former subscription to the Pastor's | salary *” Mr. ( They parted. saved From an Awful Flange. A verry narrow escape occurred on the new trestle on the Lewisburg and Tyrone Railroad, over Penns Creek, at | Paddy Mountain tunnel, last Thursday. The flange on the front pony truck broke | off on the trestle, and the engine jumped the track and the wheels went off the trestle before the train was stopped. One foot more and it would have been thrown into the creek, and would have resulted in a great loss of life. A wreck train was telegraphed for from Sunbury, and replaced it. m=TReporier Baby Carriages Free on the Pennagivasis Ratlirond The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has issued instructions to all baggage agents and baggage masters on the sys. tem east of Pittsburg and Erie to re- ceive and carry free of cost in baggage cars baby carriages, when accompained by their owners, This is a concession in favor of the which their parents will heartily appreciate; and it is but an other man. ifestation of the constant endeavor of the company to make the road attractive to everybody. Dog Days Weare now in the dog day season, which will last until Aug. 22. Dog days were so called by the Egyptian astrono- mers from the fact that Sirius, the day star, rose with the sun during that per. jod, and uniting its influence with that of the sun caused extreme sickness, Dog days is the time when boils come around and put people out of patience and in a bad humor, No Man Need Be Idle, $¥ The submerition books published by Faulkner & Allan, of Philadelphia, have proved exceptionally popular and profitable for agents. An announce. ment by them of a new work, invari. ably brings a great number of applica. tions for territory from agents who are eager for opportunities to make ‘big money. "= Frank Leslie's Ilnstrated Newspaper, he. Communion Services will be held in the Reformed Cubmeription to the { THE «1s of our | By | the purchase made by the tenants and | recommend | Cham. | interested In your | will { Was AN EDITOR ARRESTED. PINE GROVE MILLS RACKET THE TROUBLE. broad their | Jacob M, Kepler of the Tionestn Herald in Trouble Arrested at Tyrone for Assault ing » Bellefonte Party, Last week we gave a short account of | a little disturbance at Pine Grove Mills, | | the following written by a Tyrone all: Jacob M. Kepler, of the Tionesta two fine farms near Pine ( Centre | county. His tenants have been purchas. ing farming dealing in these Ove, articles at For some reason they supposed that the | owner of the farms was responsible for in an effort to obtain their claims dur. ing the visit of the owner of the from the aforesaid owner they were ejected wit! Hoste force by the owner of the farms. They did not relish this treatment and secured a warrant for the arrest of the owner of the farms newspaper in Tionesta, who was hauled on Saturday at taken before Squire Taylor, who, after and a over. hearing the evidence, bound the afore. sald Jacob M. Kepler over in the sum of #200 to appear and answer. C,. 8, W, The next train brought the high sheriff of Centre county upon the ground, who demanded with a threat to re-arrest, but Jake being an editor and publi such chaff, the officers of the and unmolested de. ward journey eat 7:10, 1 Jones becoming security. larger bail sher was not 10 be caught with { and actually defied law with success | parted on his home t by fast 1 : his exit that opinion A Queer Choice, refined dooki ng mal ne police ating of whom | where he was asso a gang | of tramps most : the 3 ance and mann with have been in jail here a dozen times. Hisappear- ers were so at van ance the company he was inthat a gen- { tleman engaged h m in conversation. The gentleman 1 OF Alfon Re the nephew of Iases West Chester, Pa. | dead, and a year or more y tramp gave the name f . and said t Darlington, His parents were went , to sock his fortune. He secured a position at a moderis James hat he was ago he to Sanduskey, O sal | | ary, and after trying vainly to secure tion, he started for the East on fool on the way he fell in with a party of tramps { who had treated him Kindly and given { him food. This led him to remain with them and become a tramp himself. Alvoid declined to leave the party and | said he was going with them to Free. | hold. It i# *hwought his mind is im pared, ~Fans from 1c up to £3.00 at the Cash Bazaar, No. 9 Spring St. Bellefonte. ~The Bellefonte Band hus ordered a new uniform for summer wear. The coats are short sacks, pure white in col or and made of a good quality of linen. Small caps to mateh the coat and the regular blue pantaloons complete the uniform which will be very pretty in- deed. ~Mrs. Harriet Pifer and her accom- plished daughter Miss Mary, have con- cluded to make Philipsburg their home, and as soon as they can find a house will go to house keeping. They will be an addition to Philipsburg’s society and we give them a hearty welcome. Mrs. Pifer is an exodnt christian lady and her daughter isa credit to her. She is an ac- complished musician, both vocal and in. strumental., Miss Mary has associated herself with Miss Etta Anders, Philips burg’s favorite musician. and teacher, and the two will make a strong pair of instructors. ~Jowrnal «~The record of the destruction which vater has wrought in various ways this summer is extraordinary. For many months past there has been hardly a day when there has not been some new re ports of death and devastation from floods, water spouts or cloud bursts, Now comes news from Mexico that the town of Chicapa was wiped out bya waterspout and also intelligence from China that 6,000 people were destroyed by a June flood. In almost every part of the world, except the British Isles, where the newspapers for many weeks reported remarkably fine weather, there has been an unusual downfall of rain, the wet year. poh HOEY in ld of aired peeacher | 2 whose church had become somewhat dilapidated. The minister succeeded at Inst in persuading the people to decorate the walls, but funds gave out and they cor 4 respondent, in Altoona Tribune explains i Herald, Is unfortunately the owner of | implements froma party | Bellefonte, | farms, | this place and | Staking | rom what | of | but was soon afterwards discharged | a Posi | STRANGER THAR VICTILOX, The story of a Life thal Reads Like Homunues, : { | The herctofore wa | life | source wok vit first pt for the froin a and appears io print has heen gleaned | Lime: Away baek in the forties Panl Geddes who was considered a wealthy merchant with #12. 000 in eash to deliver in Philadelphia for | the Lewisburg Punk. He at { the Merchant's Hotel, then thie ine hotel of the city, but was never afterwards, Owing 10 his good charac. | ter he possessed, it was promptly decided | that he had been murdered and of Lewishmirg, was entrusted arrived le wen robbed { of the money, and his wife a da ughter of General Green, of Lewisburg mourn. {ed him Some years later Robert Green, a brotherdndaw of Ged. { des, was walking the streets of Sacramento, California, when he espied a sign which read : as dead, along PAUL GEDDES, BROKER. He walked said, “How Boh stantly Tee in, extended his hand and are you, Paul 2” “How are came in response, but in- wering himself, Geddes told Bob that he must be mistaken in his man ; that he didn’t know him at all. He would have nothing more to say to hink- (rerides The but the brokers’ the sign was gone, and you, Green and the latter walked out ing it time t would be well to give the mauler over, sent back. losed. y think next day he office was « Geddes was seen no more, Robert Green wrote the particulars to his father at Lewisburg but he, believing it better for the people to think his son-inJdaw kept the matter a secret within hi breast up to the day he { death 1x and Robert | | Califorain the | Bef placed in dead, oy 4 wu J Green died re Genes icular friend teen the hands of a part | the letter from his son, which had carefully preserved, (reddes we | to the Pacific coast upon the night after he met Robert Green, and was never | again heard of until one day, about tix in 1855, _ AWS close of the civil was when he sudds uly APPERTe DUTE Pa., and walked i | and family wars” exile Gadde had prospered, wealthy aud it Mayors of Lewisburg rep d the $12, He lad become san Fran one of 1 He {loaded with hi and mfioential in S00 { IS sald was | | that city ATE GIA Pime area - bull and re. fF lwenly years. his family OTe sired toa probably on accoun n easy life, time later t of the odiumm which attached to him home, he through Hon. Simson Cameron a posi. tion at Washington which he for many years. At the time of his death he his 0th vear. at secuge d occupied Was In All the New Woolens for the com- ing season now being received. Liber. al discount for early orders, during the dull season. Our Fall stock will be the finest we have ever shown. Prices and a good fit guaranteed. MoxreoMery & Co., Tai ~ ANNOUNCEMENTS, ASS( CIATE JUDGE. We are authorized to announce the name of Trosas F.RiLey, of Harris township, asa candidate for Associate Jndge, sub to the decision of of the Democratic County Conven tion, ——— PROTHONOTARY. We are authorized to announce the name of L. A. ScRaxrren, of Beflafunte Pa. as a can- didate for Prot to the decis. fon of the Democratic ty Convention, we are authorized to announce the name of M.1 Garpxen, Howard Boro, Pa. as a candi date for Prothonotary, sub of the Demorratie County Corvention. FFICE OF THE BALD EAGLE Valley JSaiirond Company, Fourth street, indelphin, Jaty NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS. of the stockholders of this pany ts called be held at 28. Fourth trent Philadelphia. on Thursday, July 25 186, SLI odio am. lar HH oof eumbifias South 1880, — Arment H wo Secretary. FFIC EOFT HE BEL LEFONTE Nittany and Lemont Railroad Co. 8 South Fourth street, Philadelphia, July 1, — TO php HOLDERS, Companys Phather fotd anh Hndelphia on 189, at 12 o'clock m., Mdering and and 1889 is likely to go into history as ment of [ ( 5
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